5th RD51 Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, 24 May 2010 (13:00) to Thursday, 27 May 2010 (15:00)
Freiburg, Germany (Lecture Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
24 May 2010
25 May 2010
26 May 2010
27 May 2010
AM
09:00
WG2: Common Characterization and Physics Issues (until 13:00) (Lecture Room)
09:00 Test of protections against sparks - Renaud Gaglione (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Praticules - Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3)   (Lecture Room)
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09:20 Study of gain fluctuations with InGrid and TimePix - Michael Lupberger (Irfu, Saclay)   (Lecture Room)
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09:40 Ion back flow reduction in THGEM cascades using THCOBRA: first experimental results - joao veloso (university of aveiro)   (Lecture Room)
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10:00 Photoelectron extraction efficiency from CsI photocathodes in noble gases up to 10 bars - Daniel Covita (Aveiro)   (Lecture Room)
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10:20 GEM in a double phase liquid xenon detector - Vladimir Solovov (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumacao e Fisica Experimental de Particul)   (Lecture Room)
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10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 THGEMs: very recent results towards applications in DCAL & LXe detectors readout - Marco Cortesi (Weizmann Institute of Science)   (Lecture Room)
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11:20 Update on the micromegas R&D for the ATLAS muon upgrade - Venetios Polychronakos (Department of Physics)   (Lecture Room)
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11:40 Update about the Geant4 simulation of a Single GEM setup irradiated by a neutron beam - Gabriele Croci (CERN and University of Siena, Siena, Italy)   (Lecture Room)
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12:00 Recent results from a TPC with resistive Micromegas - Ms Wenxin WANG (CEA/Irfu Saclay)   (Lecture Room)
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12:20 Micromegas-TPC Z resolution measurements with charge dispersion - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University)   (Lecture Room)
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09:00
WG7: Common Test Facilities (until 13:00) (Seminar Room (GMH))
09:00 Test beam schedule and organization, safety issues - Matteo Alfonsi (CERN)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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09:20 CMS GEM - test beam goals and programme - Archana Sharma (CERN) Stefano Colafranceschi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) - Istituto Nazionale Fisi)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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09:40 THGEM photodetectors for RICH application - test beam goals and programme - Stefano Levorato (Universita & INFN, Trieste-Unknown-Unknown)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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10:00 Micromegas TPC for ILC - test beam goals and programme   (Seminar Room (GMH))
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 Micromegas for DHCAL (CALICE) - test beam goals and programme - Maximilien Chefdeville Catherine Juliette Adloff (Institut National de Physique Nucleaire et des Particules (IN2P3))   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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11:00 Gossip/GridPix testbeam experiment - Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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11:20 GEM-TPC for FAIR - test beam goals and programme - Francisco Garcia Garcia Fuentes (Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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11:40 First Results of October CERN testbeam with postprocessed Timepix chips in a TPC - Martin Johannes Schultens (Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms- Univ.-Univ. Bonn, Physikalisches)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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09:00
WG4: Simulations and Software Tools (until 12:30) (Seminar Room (GMH))
09:00 Electroluminescence in noble gases - Carlos Alberto Bastos De Oliveira   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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09:30 Feedback mechanisms - Ozkan Sahin (Uludag University)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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10:00 Avalanche statistics - Heinrich Schindler (Technische Universitaet Wien)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Gas flow - Stefano Colafranceschi   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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11:30 Status C++ and workshop - Alain Bellerive   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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09:00
WG6: Production (until 12:30) (Lecture Room)
09:00 CERN workshop upgrade - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)   (Lecture Room)
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09:30 Systematic studies with micro Bulk detectors - Arnaud Giganon (Saclay)   (Lecture Room)
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10:00 Micromega production at CIRE (firm) - Michel Billant Yann Duigou   (Lecture Room)
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10:30 GEM production at MicroMetal (firm) - Michael Sillmann (MicroMetal)   (Lecture Room)
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11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20 Status of the MPGD pilot offer for the Technology Transfer Network - Hartmut Hillemanns (CERN)   (Lecture Room)
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11:50 Qualitative simplified model of a Bulk Micromegas detector - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)   (Lecture Room)
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09:00
Plenary Session (until 15:00) (Lecture Room)
09:00 Collaboration board meeting summary - Silvia Dalla Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)) Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington) Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington)   (Lecture Room)
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09:20 WG1 summary - Serge Duarte Pinto (CERN) Paul Colas (IRFU-cea - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay) Paul Colas (CEA/Irfu)   (Lecture Room)
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09:50 WG2 summary - Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy) Harry Van Der Graaf (NIKHEF)   (Lecture Room)
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10:20 WG4 summary - Alain Bellerive (Carleton University) Rob Veenhof   (Lecture Room)
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10:50 --- Coffee break ---
11:20 WG7 summary - Matteo Alfonsi (CERN) Yorgos Tsipolitis (National Technical Univ. of Athens)   (Lecture Room)
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11:50 WG5 summary - Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn) Hans Muller (CERN)   (Lecture Room)
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12:20 WG6 summary - Rui De Oliveira (CERN) Rui De Oliveira (CERN) Hans Taureg (CERN, Geneva) Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))   (Lecture Room)
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12:50 Announcement of 6th RD51 Workshop Bari - Vincenzo Berardi (Politecnico di Bari)   (Lecture Room)
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12:55 Closing remarks - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Maksym Titov (IRFU-cea - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay) maxim titov Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay)   (Lecture Room)
PM
14:00
Plenary Session (until 18:00) (Lecture Room)
14:00 Welcome - Ulrich Landgraf (University of Freiburg) Ulrich Landgraf (Physikalisches Institut-Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg-Unk)   (Lecture Room)
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14:20 RD51 collaboration news - Leszek Ropelewski (CERN) Dr Maxim TITOV (CEA Saclay)   (Lecture Room)
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14:50 Summary of the RICH2010 conference - Silvia Dalla Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN))   (Lecture Room)
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15:35 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Large-volume spherical detector and its applications (Cancelled!) - Ioanis Giomataris (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))   (Lecture Room)
16:45 Calculation of streamer development in MPGDs in an axisymmetric hydrodynamic model - Paolo Fonte   (Lecture Room)
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17:30 Manufacturing large resistive surfaces by a spray technique - George Mikenberg (Department of Particle Physics)   (Lecture Room)
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13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
WG1: Technological Aspects and Development of New Detector Structures (until 18:00) (Lecture Room)
14:00 MAMMA: spark-protected Micromegas - Rui De Oliveira (CERN)   (Lecture Room)
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14:20 Status update of the CMS-GEM feasibility study - Archana Sharma (CERN)   (Lecture Room)
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14:40 Large GEMs for DHCal - Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington) Andrew White (University of Texas at Arlington)   (Lecture Room)
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15:00 First m^2 Micromegas chamber for DHCal - Maximilien Chefdeville (LAPP, Annecy)   (Lecture Room)
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15:20 Results on a large area triple-GEM detector at LNF - Danilo Domenici (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF))   (Lecture Room)
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15:40 The PHENIX hadron blind detector - Dr Craig Woody (Brookhaven National Lab)   (Lecture Room)
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16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 GEM foils made by laser micromachining - Vincenzo Berardi (Politecnico di Bari)   (Lecture Room)
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16:50 The CBM-GEM project for FAIR - Schmidt Hans Rudolf (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH (GSI)) Anand Kumar Dubey (Institute of Physics)   (Lecture Room)
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17:10 Development of MPGDs with resistive foils in Japan - Atsuhiko Ochi (Department of Physics)   (Lecture Room)
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17:30 New results of microbulk detectors - Francisco Iguaz (CEA)   (Lecture Room)
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14:00
WG5: MPGD Related Electronics (until 18:00) (Seminar Room (GMH))
14:00 Welcome, Announcements etc - Hans Muller (CERN) Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
14:05 Status of the Scalable Readout System - Hans Muller (CERN)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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14:30 News on GEM muon tomography - Marcus Hohlmann (Florida Tech)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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14:55 Status of the APV hybrid and Digitizer card for SRS - Sorin Martoiu (CERN)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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15:15 First data with APV25 hybrid - Sorin Martoiu (CERN)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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15:30 Spark effects on integrated circuits - Renaud Gaglione (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Praticules - Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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15:50 Status APV25 electronics for the GEM Tracker at JLab - Evaristo Cisbani (INFN Rome Gruppo Sanità)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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16:10 --- Coffe Break ---
16:30 News on the NIKHEF microHV - Frederik Hartjes (NIKHEF)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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16:50 A new FPGA-based readout for Timepix Chips - Christian Khara (University of Mainz)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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17:10 Calibration of Timepix chip and pad enlargement chips - Mr Markus Köhli (University of Freiburg)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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17:30 News on TPC with triple GEM and Timepix - Jochen Kaminski (Universität Bonn)   (Seminar Room (GMH))
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18:00
RD51 Collaboration Board Meeting (until 19:30) (Lecture Room)
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
13:30
Excursion (until 18:30) ()
19:30
Collaboration Dinner (until 23:00) ()